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Vatican City, Apr 3, 2013 \/ 08:23 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- During his second Wednesday general audience, Pope Francis said that women\u2019s main role in the Church is to communicate God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWomen have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord, in following him and communicating his face, because the eyes of faith always need the simple and profound look of love,\u201d he said April 3 in Saint Peter\u2019s Square.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThis is beautiful, and this is the mission of women, of mothers and women, to give witness to their children and grandchildren that Christ is Risen,\u201d said the Pope.<\/p>\n

\tAccording to the Italian authorities, 50,000 people attended the audience, including a delegation of 43 people from the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

\tAbout 10,000 of the pilgrims came from Milan with their archbishop, Cardinal Angelo Scola.<\/p>\n

\tPope Francis reminded the crowd that the first witnesses of Christ\u2019s Resurrection were women.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThis tells us that God does not choose according to human criteria: the first witnesses of the birth of Jesus are the shepherds, simple and humble people, the first witnesses of the Resurrection are women,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWhat matters to God is our heart, if we are open to Him, if we are like trusting children,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\tAccording to the pontiff, the disciples found it harder to believe in the risen Christ. As examples he pointed to Peter, who stopped before the empty tomb, and Thomas who had to touch the wounds of Jesus\u2019 body.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn our journey of faith it is important to know and feel that God loves us, do not be afraid to love: faith is professed with the mouth and heart, with the word and love,\u201d said Pope Francis.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cUnfortunately, there have often been attempts to obscure faith in the Resurrection of Jesus, and doubts have crept in even among believers themselves,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

\tBut this kind of faith is \u201cwatered down,\u201d due to \u201csuperficiality, sometimes because of indifference, occupied by a thousand things considered more important than the faith, or because of a purely horizontal vision of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIt is \u201cthe Resurrection that gives us the greatest hope,\u201d the Pope emphasized, \u201cbecause it opens our lives and the life of the world to the eternal future of God, to full happiness, to the certainty that evil, sin, death can be defeated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Pope then told young people, \u201cyou, witnesses of Christ, bring forth hope to this world that is aged by wars and sin, go forward young people!\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBring forth this certainty to the world: the Lord is alive and walks beside us on our life\u2019s journey,\u201d Pope Francis encouraged the large number of young people at the audience.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBring forth this hope, be anchored in this hope, the hope that comes from heaven!\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n

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